In old news, me and you and my baby brother and my slacker cousin and my cross-eyed uncle were all named Time's Person of the Year. Well, people. And we are not alone. Everyone who uses the Internet, in fact, was named a Person of the Year, for contributing to what they call the "new digital democracy". This translates to rampant usage of MySpace and YouTube (also the invention of the year).
Here is some of the most flatulent rhetoric, courtest of CBC:
"It's about the many wresting power from the few," wrote Lev Grossman, Time's technology writer.
[The internet is] a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.'-Lev Grossman
Grossman also pointed out that blogs are "often more immediate and authentic than traditional media."
Uh-huh. So by stealing and uploading copyrighted material, advertising your musical taste and sexual proclivities, and rambling about your vacation in Tunisia, you are suddenly part of a digital democracy that provides you with agency over the dominant powers that be and also allowing more authenticity to bloom on the Net?
In the words of Philip, I ain't drinkin that Kool-aid.
Here is some of the most flatulent rhetoric, courtest of CBC:
"It's about the many wresting power from the few," wrote Lev Grossman, Time's technology writer.
[The internet is] a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.'-Lev Grossman
Grossman also pointed out that blogs are "often more immediate and authentic than traditional media."
Uh-huh. So by stealing and uploading copyrighted material, advertising your musical taste and sexual proclivities, and rambling about your vacation in Tunisia, you are suddenly part of a digital democracy that provides you with agency over the dominant powers that be and also allowing more authenticity to bloom on the Net?
In the words of Philip, I ain't drinkin that Kool-aid.
